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The Ethereal Decision-Making Process for the Creative Mind

March 25, 2013 by Bob Borson 13 Comments

The Ethereal Decision-Making Process for the Creative Mind

The decision-making process can be as complicated or as simple as you want to make it. Me? I prefer simple ... because it's simple. That seems pretty obvious to me but I am constantly amazed just how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architects, Career Tagged With: Architects, Architecture and Society, being a part of the design process, career, conversations

Hi, I’m Bob … and I am a Architect Blogger

March 10, 2013 by Bob Borson 29 Comments

Hi, I’m Bob … and I am a Architect Blogger

This is day 1,152 since I started writing Life of an Architect. In that time, I have written 465 posts, received 4,044 comments, and edited or created a total of 3,769 images. I've also been fortunate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Life in General Tagged With: about bob, blog, bob borson, conversations, Writing a blog

Architectural Quotes and Scale Figures

February 18, 2013 by Bob Borson 20 Comments

Architectural Quotes and Scale Figures

Today's post was born out of necessity ... I needed to prepare some new scale figures and I needed to spend some time outside since it was 70 degrees and sunny this weekend. The result is today's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Life in General, Observations Tagged With: Architects, conversations, quotes, what?

It doesn’t count if it doesn’t get built

September 10, 2012 by Bob Borson 52 Comments

It doesn’t count if it doesn’t get built

I fully expect to have some people disagree with me today, even go so far as to unsubscribe because this is the post that they finally decide I am truly an idiot (something that they should have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architects, Career, Life in General, Observations Tagged With: Architects, conversations, design, what?

Can you steal design?

August 6, 2012 by Bob Borson 26 Comments

Can you steal design?

Authentic versus Reproduction. This is a topic that I think about more than I should because it relates to some of the things I do. An easy way to introduce the topic is to take a look at Mid-Century … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Observations Tagged With: conversations, design, furniture

By the numbers … 2011 Life of an Architect

February 21, 2012 by Bob Borson 26 Comments

By the numbers … 2011 Life of an Architect

Back on January 3rd, 2011, I wrote a post about the traffic that comes to my site ... and I showed what information seemed interesting about my 2010 traffic. I didn't put together a similar post for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 2012 AIA National Convention, blog, conversations, Writing a blog

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